Ok, if you've ever read this blog or looked around this place, you'll notice that I'm not really a slacker. I'm just crazy busy. I do have off weeks when I get to lay around all day until it's time for me to go to the newspaper. And other weeks, I'm rushing from one event to another, with barely enough time to swish some mouthwash and hope I have a spare pair of socks in my trunk.

That being said, I'm going to to try my best to post the good food you know and love as frequently as possible. I think I'm doing well if I manage to post a pic or two with a 5-word explanation of what it is and how it got there. So...please continue to support me. I need it. I need to know my efforts in and out of the kitchen are not in vain.

Onto la recette...

What's the difference between cornmeal and polenta?

About $3.

They're the same thing. Using the word "polenta" makes it possible to charge $3 for a muffin instead of $1 for a cornmeal muffin. Isn't that crazy?

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Sift dry ingredients into a medium bowl. In another bowl (or large measuring cup) combine the wet ingredients, including the zest, if using. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients, stirring until moist. Pour the batter into the prepared muffin cups

anheuser-busch has a cookbook?? Did you know our Seaworld down here is owned by AB, and they give you free beer? Even if you don't buy a ticket to the park. I'm a season pass girl, though. Can't get enough of those craaaazy dolphins.

Slacker? No way, it's just the way life works sometimes. Relaxing is a better word anyways :) Maybe those muffins are a great idea because you can grab them on the go, and eat while you tie your shoes or something :)

Great post Nikki. You are one of the hardest working women I know. So, it's special when you actually catch some time to send us a great recipe. Try and take a little bit of time just for you. Roses to you my friend. I like cornmeal muffins!

spiteful: Beerios. Whoa. That's hard core. As a kid, I couldn't have milk so I substituted apple juice. Not a good plan. They didn't have soy back then. Or if they did, it wasn't available in Philadelphia LOL

kimi: thanks, thanks, AND THANKS!

rachel: You make me blush, too. I try to work hard and play hard and I like it when the two meet. But some days...it's all I can do to not come home and just zonk out.

maggie: roast chicken is one of my favorite foods. I think, this is what I'm going to have for dinner!

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Nikki Miller-Ka is a professional food blogger and food critic based in North Carolina. She writes and bites about local and regional restaurant trends, solo travel and develops original seasonal recipes here on Nik Snacks.
In addition, she is the food editor at Triad City Beat newspaper, the Casual Dining columnist in the Greensboro News & Record and tour guide for Taste Carolina Gourmet Food Tours.
Miller-Ka was classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu College Of Culinary Arts in Miami and holds degrees in English from East Carolina University. Formerly, she’s been a judge for the James Beard Foundation, featured in Southern Living Magazine & New York Magazine, worked an editorial assistant, news reporter and guest blogger for various publications and outlets in the Southeast. She has worked as a catering chef, a pastry chef, a butcher, a baker, and a biscuit-maker.